Using text to predict psychological and physical health: A comparison of human raters and computerized text analysis

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 76, Issue , 2017, Pages 122-127

  Ziemer, Kathryn Schaefer ^a   Korkmaz, Gizem ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Expressive writing; Human coding; Sentiment analysis; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

CHRONIC PAIN; EXPRESSIVE WRITING; HUMAN CODING; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; TEXT ANALYSIS;

HEALTH;

EID: 85024125398     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.06.038     Document Type: Article

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